Michael Sherry

Michael S. Sherry (* 1945 ) is an American historian who studies the history of the United States in the 20th century, including military history, political history, and the history of homosexual culture. He is a professor at Northwestern University .

Sherry studied at Washington University with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1967 and at Yale University (1967/68 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow there), with a master's degree in 1969 and a doctorate in 1975 ( Preparing for the next war: american plans for postwar defense 1941-1945 ). In between he was a history teacher in schools. From 1973 he was a Teaching Fellow and from 1975 Lecturer at Yale and from 1976 Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, where he was Associate Professor from 1982 and Professor from 1987 and Richard W. Loeb Professor from 2000 . From 1994 to 1997 he was Assistant Dean for freshmen and from 1998 to 2001 Associate Dean of Weinberg College.

As a military historian, he is best known for his story of the development of US strategic air warfare during World War II and before.

He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Sherry is working on a book about pejorative tendencies in American culture (project title: Go directly to jail. The punitive turn in american life).

Fonts (selection)

• Preparing for the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941-45, Yale University Press 1977
• The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon, Yale University Press 1987 (received the Bancroft Prize )
• In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s, Yale University Press 1995
• Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy, University of North Carolina Press 2007 (received the Lambda Literary Award )

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